Rajalla E. Prewitt , M.D.

Biography:

Rajalla E. Prewitt, M.D. joined St. Vincent Charity’s Behavioral Health medical staff in October 2021 and currently provides outpatient behavioral health services. She is dual board certified in adult psychiatry and child/adolescent psychiatry.

Previously, Dr. Prewitt served, beginning in January 2015, as medical director of the adolescent inpatient unit at Snowden at Fredericksburg of Mary Washington Hospital; as an attending psychiatrist for the adult partial hospitalization program at Snowden at Fredericksburg of Mary Washington Hospital; and as an outpatient adult and child/adolescent psychiatrist for Gaertner Psychiatric PC, which is a full service inpatient and outpatient psychiatric medical practice serving Fredericksburg and Richmond, VA. From 2010 to 2014, Dr. Prewitt served as a psychiatrist at the Center for Family Guidance in Marlton, NJ.

Dr. Prewitt holds a bachelor’s degree in biology from John Carroll University and medical degree from The Ohio State University College of Medicine. She completed her residency in psychiatry at the University of Cincinnati and fellowship in child/adolescent psychiatry at the University of Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, where she was chief resident of child/adolescent psychiatry.

Throughout her career, Dr. Prewitt has consulted with various behavioral health programs throughout the country to extend best practices and improve training.